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SPORTSMANS COAT Filed De. 1s, 1945 CLAUDE H. DUT ROW the shoulder portion thereof. In lieu of button holes and buttons I may employ spring snap fasteners of various forms.

The exterior of the back of the coat I is also provided with fastening means which coact with the fastening means carried by the sheet-like signal or protective attachment and are aligned therewith. In the form of my invention illustrated buttons and 6 are arranged at spaced positions on the exterior of the rear of vthe coat I substantially in alignment with the shoulder portions of the coat. Buttons 5 Vand 6 engage the same button holes 'I and 8 which are engaged by buttonsa and 4 when the signal or pro-` tective attachment 2 is folded interiorly of the coat.

As shown in Fig. 2, the signal or protective attachment 2, when released from the buttons 3 and 4 interiorly of the coat, is permitted to pendently hang from the bottom I3 of the coat. Withthe sheet-like signal or protective attachment pendently hanging from the bottom I3 of the sportsmans coat, the attachment serves as a protective means for the sportsman in sitting position on the seat of a boatas required in duck or bird shooting; or in sitting upon a wet stump or log in the forests or elds when resting in a game hunt, or while sitting upon damp rocks along the banks of a stream. The attachment 2 illustrated in Figs. 4 and 5 also serves as a protection to the sportsman against rain and wind.

In the course of the hunt the signal or protective attachment is folded outside of the sportsmans coat I in the position illustrated in Figs. 6 and 7. It will be seen that the fastening means, such as the button holes 1 and 8 in the sheet-like signal or protective attachment are fastened over the buttons 5 and 6 thereby supporting the signal or protective attachment in a position whereby the contrasting color of the signal or protective attachment 2 represented by the surface lines 9 extends across substantially the entire back of the coat. Thus the identity of the sportsman is clearly established through the natural camouflage of the environment.

As represented in Fig. 8, the signal or protective attachment 2 carrying the contrasting colored surface 9 thereon is provided with a stitched fabric strip III extending transversely of the top thereof. A coacting transverse extending stitched strip II is provided on the bottom periphery I3 of the sportsmans coat. y'I'he coacting .stitched strips Il) and II are interconnected by a zipper represented at I2 having an operating slide I4 and manual control device I5 connected thereto. A starting or zipper guide member I6 is provided adjacent the remote ends of the strips Ii) and II to enable the zipper slide III to be gripped over the coacting zipper teeth represented at I2 for fastening the signal or protective attachment 2 to the sportsmans coat. 'The zipperV provides a cover means for attaching or detaching attachment 2 to the sportsmans coat in lieu of the permanent stitching thereof to the coat as illustrated in Figs. l7. Thus, attachment to existing sportsmans coat is facilitated as compared to the original installation of the signal or protective attachment in the sportsmans coat as it is originally tailored.

The signal or protective attachment 2 is formed from flexible sheet-like rubber or waterproof material having a suitable binding edging which I have represented at I'I for preventing fraying of the'edge.

Throughout the specification I have referred generally to a sportsmans coat. It will be understood that I have used this term synonymously to identify hunters, fishermen, and those generally engaged in sports or undertakings where an identifying signal is desirable at times but where the garment must perform several functions and where the garment may be restored to a condition for normal wear without visibility o`f the warning signal and protective device of my invention as described herein.

While I have described my invention in a preferred embodiment which I have found very practical and successful in production and use, I realize that modifications in the illustrated arrangement may be employed and I desire that it be understood that I intend no limitations upon my invention other than may be imposed by the scope of the appended claims.

What I claim as new and desire to secure by Letters Patent of the United States is as follows: 1. In a sportsmans coat, a back and shoulder portion, a exible waterproof sheet of material having a width substantially conforming with the width of the back portion of the coat and connected with the lower rear edge ofthe back portion of the coat and foldable to a position either interiorly or exteriorly of the back portion of the coat, fastening means carried both interiorly and exteriorly of the back portion of the coat and substantially aligned one Y with the other, and means carried by the exible waterproof sheet of material and alternately engageable with said fastening means for maintaining said sheet of material either interiorly or exteriorly of back portion of the coat.

2. In a sportsmans coat, a back and shoulder portion, a flexible waterproof sheet of material having a'width substantially conforming with the width of the back portion of the coat and connected with the lower rear edge of the back portion of the coat and pendently supportable in a hanging position substantially coplanar with the back portion of the coat, said flexible waterproof sheet of material being foldable adjacent the interior of the back portion of the coat or alternately being foldable adjacent the exterior of the back portion of the coat, fastening means secured to both the' inside and outside of the back portion of the coat and coacting means carried 'by said flexible waterproof sheet of material and detachably engageable with said fastening means for maintaining said sheet of material either inside or outside of the coat.

3. In a sportsmans coat, a back and shoulder portion,a flexible waterproof sheet of material having a width substantially conforming with the width of the back portion of the coat and vconnected with the lower rear edge of the back portion of the coatand pendently supportable in a hangingV position substantially coplanar with the back portion of the coat, said flexible waterproof sheet of material being foldable adjacent the interior of the back portion of the coat or alternately being foldable adjacent the exterior of the back portion of the coat, fastening means secured to both the inside and outside of the back portion of the coat and coacting means carried by said flexible waterproof sheet of material and detachably engageable with said fastening means for maintaining said sheet of material either inside or outside of the coat, the surface of said flexible waterproof sheet of material that is exposed at the back portion of the coat being optically treated to establish a contrasting color signal 'distinguishing from the material of the coat and the environment in which it is normally used.

4. Apparel of the class described comprising a coat having a back and shoulder portion, a flexible sheet of waterproof material substantially conforming with the Width of the back portion of the coat, means for detachably connecting said flexible sheet of Waterproof material to the bottom edge of the back portion of the coat for permitting said flexible waterproof sheet of material to pendently hang from the back portion of the coat substantially coplanar with the back portion of the coat, fastening means disposed both interiorly and exteriorly of the back portion of the coat approximately in alignment with the shoulder portion of the coat and means carried by said flexible waterproof sheet of material for alternately engaging the fastening means interiorly of the back portion of the coat or the fastening means exteriorly of the coat whereby said flexible sheet of Waterproof material may be concealed within the back portion of the coat or exposed exteriorly of the back portion of the coat adjacent the shoulder portion thereof.

5. Apparel of the class described comprising a coat having a back and shoulder portion and having a flexible Waterproof sheet of material connected With the bottom edge of the back portion of the coat and adapted to pendently hang therefrom, said sheet of material having such length that when folded :back upon said coat, either interiorly or exteriorly thereof, the upper edge extends substantially in alignment with the shoulder portion of the coat, fastening means disposed both interiorly and exteriorly of the coat and coacting fastening means carried by said exible waterproof sheet of material and engageable with the aforesaid fastening means for maintaining the flexible waterproof sheet of material in a position concealed interiorly of the coat or in a position exposed exteriorly of the coat to constitute a signal.

6. Apparel of the class described comprising a coat having a back and shoulder portion and having a flexible waterproof sheet of material substantially conforming with the Width of the back portion of the coat and connected with the bottom edge of the back portion of the coat and adapted to pendently hang therefrom, said sheet of material having such length that when folded back upon said coat, either interiorly or exteriorly thereof, the upper edge extends substantially in alignment with the shoulder portion of the coat, fastening means disposed both interiorly and exteriorltT of the coat and coacting fastening means carried by said flexible waterproof sheet of material and engageable with the aforesaid fastening means for maintaining the flexible waterproof sheet of material in a position interiorly of the coat or in a position exteriorly of the coat, the exposed portion of said flexible waterproof sheet of material being contrastingly colored with respect to the color of the coat and constituting a signal to identify the wearer.

7. Apparel of the class described comprising a coat having a back and shoulder portion and hav ing a flexible waterproof sheet of material substantially conforming with the Width of the back portion of the coat and connected to the bottom edge of the back portion of the coat and adapted to pendently hang therefrom, said sheet of material having such length that when the sheet of material is folded either interiorly or exteriorly of the back portion of the coat the sheet of ma terial extends substantially to the shoulder portions of the coat, said flexible sheet of material having a pair of spaced button-engaging means adjacent the peripheral edge thereof, and spaced buttons carried by said coat adjacent the shoulder portion thereof, both interiorly and exteriorly of the coat, the button-engaging means on said exible sheet of material being adapted to be fastened tothe buttons, either interiorly or exteriorly of the back portion of the coat.

CLAUDE H. DUTROW.

REFERENCES CITED The following references are of record in the le of this patent:

UNITED STATES PATENTS Number Name Date 1,073,479 Dunbar et al Sept. 16, 1913 1,773,442 Speh Aug. 19, 1930 1,905,235 Mandelert Apr. 25, 1933 

